“Israel is responsible, one way or another, for this attack to
embarrass Egypt´s leadership and create new problems at the border,
in order to ruin efforts to end the [Israeli] siege of the Gaza
Strip,” Haniyeh claimed during in an interviews with the Hamas-run Al-
Aqsa television.

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“We call on Egypt to discuss all issues related to the mutual
interests of Egypt and Palestinians,” he added.

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Sunday’s terror attack began when terrorists attacked two Egyptian
army posts in the Egyptian part of Rafiah with anti-tank rockets and
gunfire. The terrorists then tried to infiltrate into Israel using
two stolen Egyptian military vehicles, but were foiled by the IDF.

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MENA, the official news agency in Egypt, reported that the terrorists
were “jihadists” who “infiltrated from Gaza through tunnels in
collaboration with jihadist elements” inside Egypt.

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Haniyeh quickly denied that any terrorists from Gaza were involved in
the attack, but Hamas also said it could not eliminate the
possibility that terrorists from within Gaza had crossed into the
Sinai and joined other jihadists.

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“No Palestinian wants to kill anybody in Egypt. Any attack against
Egypt´s security is also against the security of Palestinians,” he
said in a statement quoted by the website of the Egyptian Al-Ahram
newspaper.

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Earlier on Monday, the Muslim Brotherhood also claimed that Israel
was behind the terror attack.

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The Islamist movement said in a statement that the attack “could be
attributed to the Mossad, which has been seeking to abort the
Egyptian revolution, especially as it had several days ago instructed
Israeli citizens who were in Sinai to leave immediately.”

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The statement also said that the incident “aims to add problems at
the border to those already plaguing the country internally following
the collapse of a corrupt system, and attempts to claim the failure
of the new Egyptian government that was formed only three days ago.”

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An IDF investigation of the terror attack indicates that the
terrorists were able to blow open a fence on the Gaza border by
blowing up 500 kilograms of explosives, that were stored inside a
truck.

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The operation, top IDF officials said, presents a “worrying picture
of the intentions of terrorist groups to attack Israel.”